Texas Judges Flout Patent Venue Law, Chamber Tells Appeals Court

The US Chamber of Commerce urged the Federal Circuit to narrow where owners of patents covering multi-step inventions can bring infringement suits.

The business group urged the appeals court to grant Comcast Cable Communications LLC‘s mandamus petition to force Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to dismiss or transfer a suit against the company to a court in Pennsylvania. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has jurisdiction over patent-related appeals, can “eliminate the possibility of forum-shopping on the basis of which interpretation of the same statutory language ...